Humility as a Path to Wisdom
Practicing humility and stepping into the skin of the other can help us eliminate blind spots and broaden our worldview.
Practicing humility and stepping into the skin of the other can help us eliminate blind spots and broaden our worldview.
Government is often individually compartmentalizing their activity and data, but agencies don’t always have an end game in mind. In other words, they are fixing pieces, but not looking at the whole picture. GIS is the foundational piece that can connect the aspects of your smart community and help you topple silos, think holistically and… Read more »
For being such a small unit, the Forensic Audits and Investigative Service (FAIS) has a mammoth task: to review the integrity of programs with multi-billion dollar budgets.
Open enrollment is just around the corner (have you prepared yet? If not, check out my suggestions here on getting ready). And like they do every year, premiums will be going up. But, there is some good news!
In order to make our healthcare system better, providers need to get away from an emphasis on the quantity of services delivered and move towards recognizing and rewarding quality, high-value care.
In government, there has been a growing respect for the world’s oldest form of communication: storytelling. Storytelling is a vibrant way to persuade, entertain, inform and inspire your team. And even more important than storytelling is story sharing.
The Secret Lives of Public Servants is a three-episode documentary web series that explores the creative hobbies of public service workers outside the 9-5. Each episode profiles a different public servant and looks at what they do for their day jobs and then what they do in their “secret life”.
If you still haven’t settled on your costume for tonight, check out these low-lift ideas that will definitely be a hit.
The public sector will never have the “no strings attached” freedom of a genius grant. But finding solutions to increasingly complex challenges demands that we foster conditions for dynamic, creative approaches to today’s problems.
How do we better engage government workers? Challenge them.